Vibrio infections are becoming increasingly common in the United States. Pathogenic vibrios cause 3 major syndromes of clinical illness: gastroenteritis, wound infections, and septicemia. Many cases of Vibrio-associated gastroenteritis are substantially underrecognized because vibrios are not readily identified in routine stool cultures. Epidemiologic data suggest that the majority of these inf...

introduction: diarrheal diseases are a serious health problem and important causes of growth retardation and death in the developing world, especially those of prolonged duration. since diarrhea is constantly found in children with zinc deficiency, very studies supported zinc supplements beneficial on the duration and severity of diarrhea among children. we review the impact of zinc effects on ...

The aetiology of acute gastroenteritis was studied in 50 infants and young children. Bacterial pathogens were isolated in 33, enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), Salmonella, and Shigella being the commonest isolates. Rotaviruses were detected in the stools of 13 of the cases. All children with gastroenteritis in whom rotavirus was detected were seen during the months July to December. In 30 childr...

Acute gastroenteritis continues to be associated with substantial morbidity in developed countries and has a significant mortality in developing countries [1]. The average child younger than five years of age experiences 2.2 diarrheal episodes per year in industrialized countries [2], and this rate in developing countries is significantly higher. Treatment from resulting dehydration accounts fo...

Aeromonas caviae strains have been isolated from blood and stool cultures of three immunocompetent patients, residents of Northern India, who presented with community acquired septicemia without any recent history of diarrhea. Cell culture infectivity test performed on Hep-2 cells have shown substantial degree of invasiveness in the isolated strains. This case unleashes a possibility of asympto...

Apart from gastroenteritis, rotavirus has been rarely implicated with some cutaneous disorders such as generalized maculo-papular exanthema, infantile acute hemorrhagic edema and Gianotti-Crosti syndrome. We report a 30-month old toddler boy who developed erythematous macular skin eruptions during the course of rotavirus gastroenteritis. To our knowledge, this is the first case in the literatur...

background: rotavirus is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children with gastroenteritis. since the discovery of rotaviruses, several techniques have been used for their laboratory diagnosis; those included electron microscopy (em) and enzyme immunoassay. these methods, however, are expensive and not readily available everywhere. we have developed a technique which can be used for ...

Barnes, G. L., and Townley, R. R. W. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 343. Duodenal mucosal damage in 31 infants with gastroenteritis. Duodenal biopsies taken in the acute stage of gastroenteritis in 31 infants have shown histological abnormality and disaccharidase depression in the majority. In 5, mucosal damage was severe with changes similar to those seen in coeliac disease. Rep...

A NEWLY recognised virus has recently been seen in duodenal mucosa from children with acute non-bacterial gastroenteritis (Bishop et al, 1973). Subsequently, Flewett, Bryden and Davies (1973) found the virus in negatively stained faecal extracts. Similar viruses have since been detected throughout the world and there is convincing evidence that this virus, provisionally called rotavirus, is an ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Recent studies reveal that acute gastroenteritis can precipitate irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms leading to the concept of post-infectious IBS. However, the overall contribution of gastroenteritis to the total IBS prevalence is unknown. In this exercise we try to estimate the contribution of gastroenteritis in IBS using the published literature and a longitudinal approac...